Antonyms for delusion
dɪˈlu ʒəndelu·sion

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1. delusion

   A delusion is a mistaken conviction, an illusion a mistaken perception or inference. An illusion may be wholly of the senses; a delusion always involves some mental error. In an optical illusion the observer sees either what does not exist, or what exists otherwise than as he sees it, as when in a mirage distant springs and trees appear close at hand. We speak of the illusions of fancy or of hope, but of the delusions of the insane. A hallucination is a false image or belief which has nothing, outside of the disordered mind, to suggest it; as, the hallucinations of delirium tremens. Compare DECEPTION; INSANITY.

   Antonyms:
   actuality, certainty, fact, reality, truth, verity

   Synonyms:
   error, fallacy, hallucination, illusion, phantasm

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1. • Misconception

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1. delusion, psychotic beliefnoun

   (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

   Synonyms:
   psychotic belief, head game, illusion, hallucination

2. delusion, hallucinationnoun

   a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea

   "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"

   Synonyms:
   psychotic belief, head game, illusion, hallucination

3. delusion, illusion, head gamenoun

   the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

   Synonyms:
   hallucination, deception, legerdemain, psychotic belief, fantasy, trick, illusion, phantasy, magic trick, head game, conjuring trick, fancy, thaumaturgy, magic, conjuration, semblance

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1. delusionnoun

   Antonyms:
   disillusionment, disenchantment, reality, actuality, fact

   Synonyms:
   illusion, deception, phantasm, hallucination, mockery, ruse

How to use delusion in a sentence?

1. Laurence Wormald:

   The illusion of being able to permanently depress the risk on equities through smart-beta or minimum-variance strategies has been very, very appealing, and a lot of money has piled in, but that delusion cannot be kept up because it's based on a strategy that doesn't work when the crowd arrives.

2. Link Starbureiy:

   When I was suffering, I knew that was real. Now that things are good, I'm afraid that I may only be suffering from delusion.

3. Stephen Vizinczey:

   Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

4. George Eliot:

   Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information; but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to lack of matter. Speech is often barren, but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled nest-egg; and, when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

5. Chief Executive Peter Coleman:

   We've moved into FEED with a belief that we'll get the project across the line. But we're also under no delusion that there's some more work to do.

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